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The Yorkshire-Humber Deanery is keen to increase our training capacity.   Are you and your practice interested in GP training? You don’t need to be a GP partner to become a trainer – salaried doctors are also welcome. Nurses can also become "Associate Trainers".

In the first instance please contact your local training scheme's programme director(s) and arrange a convenient date and time for them to visit you at your practice to perform an informal visit.  Post visit they need to complete and return the visit report in the resources section.

After that, Intending trainers need to fill out the application form (download from the right hand "Resources" column) to commence the pathway and return it to the individual indicated.

 

The Benefits of Getting Involved in Training

There is a lot to be gained: 


For the trainer

  • the stimulation of learning new skills
  • the satisfaction of helping young doctors develop
  • excellent peer support from the trainers’ group
  • the opportunity to develop as an educator


For the practice

  • the prestige of training status, usually seen as associated with high standards of record keeping, organisation and patient care
  • contact with young doctors keeping everyone in touch with new developments
  • a good balance of practice activities – educational and clinical
  • extra clinical sessions – in most practices the trainer devotes 1-2 clinical sessions per week to training, but the trainee is expected to do seven
  • the trainer’s educational skills valuable for practice events
  • recruitment of former trainees, or of candidates attracted by the practice’s training status
  • financial support available from the Deanery for practices who don’t have adequate space or facilities

 

Postgraduate Certificate

This is the only route to GP Training as from June 2011.  Those that commenced on the old IS Seminar Route, will be allowed to continue on this route, but no new applications are permitted.

We will be running further IS1 and IS2 seminars until October 2012 to allow those on this route to complete.

Potential Trainers are required to complete one of the 3 PGCME's below to become a GP Trainer.  Which one you choose is up to the individual doctor.

 

PATHWAY 1

Leeds Post Graduate Certificate in Education for Primary Care

 

PATHWAY 2

Hull and York Medical School - Certificate in Medical Education

The Hull York Medical School’s Postgraduate Certificate in Medical Education (PGCME) is an innovative pro­gramme for those who teach in health-related areas. Using a blended learning approach, the programme is designed to enable you to enhance your practical skills in medical education by critical reflection and developing your knowledge of underpinning educational principles.

 

PATHWAY 3

Sheffield University - Certificate in Medical Education

A Certificate Course in medical teaching is in the process of being commissioned from Sheffield University Academic Unit of medical education.

Website:

http://www.shef.ac.uk/aume/courses_aume/pg_cert

Click here for further details.

Contacts at the University are:

Michelle Marshall and Henry Smithson

If you are a Prospective Trainer in the South Yorkshire area and wish to attend this course please contact Lynda Price at the South Yorkshire Locality Office.
lynda.price@yorksandhumber.nhs.uk

 

PATHWAY 4

Introductory Seminars (ISCS, IS1 & IS2)

No new applicants are being taken on to this route as we will be running the final ISCS seminar in May / June 2011.

 

Courses in Work Place Based Assessments (WPBA)

  • Will be run at both Spring and Autumn School
  • We recommend that prospective and new trainers attend a course devoted to WPBA in order to make sure that they have these necessary skills and partake in some calibration

 

Leeds University Short Courses in Educational Theory and Practice

 

A Note on MRCGP through iMAP

  • You don't necessarily need MRCGP by examination in order become a GP trainer. Whilst a GP does need to be a member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in order to become a trainer it is now possible to become a member of the college through an assessment process called iMAP. Details of iMAP can be found in the left hand navigation menu.

 

Course Fees and Expenses

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